What about those angels!

     • A single mother with two infants was driving her “old clunker” of a car home when it started to sputter. Realizing that she was about to run out of gas, she took the next exit ramp which just happened to be slightly uphill. Almost at the top of the hill, her car died. Looking around she could see nothing except empty fields and the distant lights of a truck stop about a quarter of a mile down the road. With no cars in sight and no cell phone, she looked at her two young children asleep in their car seats and began to despair. She put her head on the steering wheel and started praying. Suddenly, a few taps on the window brought her back to reality and when she looked up she saw a clean-cut young man standing there. He motioned that she should roll down the window. Without the slightest fear, she rolled down the window and listened as the young man explained that he would help her over the hill and then to the truck stop at the bottom of the exit. He told her to put the car in neutral and she soon felt the car moving. Once over the hill, she steered toward the truck stop. The car kept moving until it reached the gas pumps. Her children never woke up. As she looked around to thank the young man, there was no one in sight.

• A young woman was skiing down an unfamiliar slope. Eager to get going, she missed a sign that would have directed her safely down the hill. Around a corner she encountered a man completely dressed in black. He was directing her to go in a different direction than she was headed. His sudden appearance caused her to fall and when she looked up he was gone, leaving no tracks in the snow. Examining the spot of her meeting with the man dressed in black she discovered that if he had not distracted her she would have skied right over an outcropping. It occurred to her later that the “angel” was wearing black so that she could clearly see him against the white background of the ski hill.